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Lovecraft Country is an American black horror historical fantasy drama television series developed by Misha Green based on and serving as a continuation of the 2016 novel by Matt Ruff. Starring Jurnee Smollett and Jonathan Majors , it premiered on August 16, 2020, on HBO . [ 3 ]
Lovecraft Country is a 2016 dark fantasy black horror novel by American writer Matt Ruff, exploring the conjunction between the horror fiction of H. P. Lovecraft and racism in the United States during the era of Jim Crow laws, as experienced by black science fiction fan Atticus Turner and his family.
In 2020, Green wrote a supernatural horror show, Lovecraft Country, which was produced by Get Out director and writer Jordan Peele. [8] Based on Matt Ruff 's novel of the same name , the series tackles race issues, set in the 1950s, while also utilizing elements of H. P. Lovecraft .
Any monster that a sci-fi writer could dream up pales in comparison to the evil that might reside in human hearts, a fact made abundantly, terrifyingly clear in HBO’s Lovecraft Country. The new ...
“‘Lovecraft Country’ is a [story] about a family,” says series star Jonathan Majors, “a Black family making their way through a world full of obstacles … and [answers] the question of ...
Lovecraft Country‘s protagonist, Atticus Freeman (played by When We Rise‘s Jonathan Majors) drives through several of them in the HBO drama’s first episode, enduring inhumane taunts and ...
Matthew Theron Ruff (born September 8, 1965) is an American author of thriller, science fiction and comic novels, including The Mirage and Lovecraft Country, the latter having been adapted in 2020 by HBO into a TV series.
Similar to Watchmen, the superhero series that takes place in an alternative version of U.S. history, Lovecraft Country blends historical and real-life events with a fictional story.